horizonstar
Dec 2002
$uXor
|
quote:
Originally posted by petrocs
so I think the answer is....YES you are alone 
nope, sorry, I've been away from the forum for a few days ... otherwise I would have jumped in to help you out here, XXX. I think the movie was scheisse (pardon my French -- or is it German? eh, who can tell, these days ...) I think that Adam Sandler was indeed finally given his first chance at a non-typecast movie role and he fucked it up. People (critics, especially) are confusing "unmotivated" for "brilliant" and "not-in-character" for "original". All he did the whole movie was stare deadpan at various angles with respect to the camera.
AND HE STILL HAD TO BREAK THINGS!!! lol. just when you thought he might finally break free of his Waterboy/Happy Gilmore/Billy Madison mentality, he had to go and be juvenile. of course, in Punch Drunk Love, his juvenile mentality wasn't as simplistic as that in all his previous films -- it was clearly part of a more richly structured persona. But he still didn't play the part well. I thought he developed his non-typecast persona a little bit better in "Anger Management", but there was still that horrid deadpan stare. yuck.
Anyways, aside from Sandler, I thought the movie was awful. Yes, it was an interesting look at a troubled character, and perhaps I could identify with some of the characters. And Luis Guzman did help out a lot ... I really like that guy. But overall, I do not watch movies in order to be exposed to the nasty, indigestion-like malaise that is the pathetic, wallowing-in-self-pity human.
I give it a 3/10. And that rating is only that high because it's been 3 or so months since I rm -rf'd it and I've forgotten some of what was so nasty about it.
/me pukes now
Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged
|
05-28-2003 05:15 PM
